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8 hours ago, zskins said:

 

I have a N95 without the outlets. Is it a little harder to breath. Yes. Will it save my life, probably. 

 

Fabulous. IF your mask is N95, and IF you have a bunch of them (they're supposed to be single use, generally), and IF you know how to wear it properly (it requires training), and IF you also cover your eyes with something, like a face shield, then it will "probably" keep you safe.

 

And yet, there are still lots of people that are too untrained, too poor, and/or too unable too access a sufficient supply of N95 masks (especially if everybody suddenly tries to get them), and lots of them still have to go out (especially the poor). They don't deserve to get sick/die because some won't wear a simple cloth face mask.

 

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your position is naive.

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On 6/20/2020 at 11:28 PM, Califan007 said:

Worldometer.com has been tracking daily new COVID cases since march 8th. That's 104 days worth of data.

 

Since March 8th, there have only been 9 days where over 33,000 new cases were reported. Just 9 days out of 104.

 

Two of those days were Friday and yesterday.

 

There has never been three straight days of 33,000+ new COVID cases. We've been averaging around 20K new cases on Sunday for the last month and a half.

 

 

 

 

 

So much for that...

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You can be infected wearing an N95, but the viral load would be so incredibly low that your immune system would have a huge leg up on the situation. 

 

Part of the reason that the CFR is tanking in many countries is that viral loads have been lessened by wearing masks. Instances of healthcare workers succumbing to enormous viral loads have become rarer in the US. In fact, paradoxically, there are studies illustrating fewer positive cases among healthcare workers than in the general population.

 

Wear a mask. It helps you and everyone around you more than many initially assumed. 

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I don’t get the people who don’t wear masks... it’s not that hard, and not doing it is screaming “HEY EVERYONE IM AN ***HOLE”... even if the world is over reacting to a fake virus, don’t be an ***hole....

 

also, I wish we could do something about the nose cleavage. It really is the worst kind.

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White House Official: Americans Will “Just Have to Live With” Massive Coronavirus Surge

 

The three most populous states in the U.S. recorded their highest daily totals of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. California announced more than 7,000, while Florida and Texas announced about 5,500 each. The “positivity rate” of tests in those states is increasing, which means the rise in cases discovered is not explained by increased test availability; in Florida and Texas, positivity rates have roughly doubled in the past week and tripled in the past month. Both of those states’ governors have been outspoken about keeping as many businesses and public spaces open as possible despite the recommendations of public health experts; neither state requires residents to wear masks in public. It’s only been in the past week that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has begun to emphasize the urgency of wearing masks in order to stop the spread of the virus throughout the bars, luxury stores, and nail salons that have been open to Texans for the past month. (Abbott had previously said that he personally recommended wearing masks, but his talking points on the subject included the caveat that to require anyone to put one on would be an infringement of “liberty.”)

 

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow addressed the situation on Thursday morning on CNBC:

 

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There is no second wave coming. It’s just hot spots. They send in CDC teams, we’ve got the testing procedures, we’ve got the diagnostics, we’ve got the PPE. And so I really think it’s a pretty good situation.

 

Kudlow also spoke to reporters in person at the White House, saying that “We’re going to have hot spots, no question,” and that “we just have to live with that.”

 

Here’s what the United States’ daily case count line graph currently looks like:

 

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On Thursday, Kudlow also said the administration will not respond to rising numbers by encouraging another nationwide lockdown, which speaks to his motive for downplaying the pandemic—namely, that he believes it’s his job to advance the interests of “the economy” as defined by the short-term top-line indicators, which are damaged when businesses close. But at almost the same time, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was busy announcing a “pause” in the state’s reopening, which will not be good for sales or employment. This impossibility, of making a full economic recovery without a full public health recovery, is a bind that almost every official in the U.S. except hard-line Trump loyalists saw coming. But if Kudlow’s press tour was any indication, the White House’s official position is that it would still prefer not to acknowledge reality. 

 

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100 percent of regular ICU beds in Texas Medical Center occupied, but hospitals have space for surge

 

All regular ICU beds in the Texas Medical Center are now being used, according to numbers just released on the TMC website, but officials say they can add more.

 

Hospitals in Houston's Medical Center will now move some ICU patients to beds not normally used for critical care.

 

Twenty-eight percent of the ICU patients are being treated for COVID-19.

 

Despite reaching surge capacity, four hospital CEOs said Thursday there's no cause for "unwarranted alarm."

 

Those same CEOs signed a letter to Houstonians Wednesday warning, "If this trend continues, our hospital system capacity will become overwhelmed."

 

Dr. Marc Boom explained in a virtual news conference Thursday that the purpose of the letter was to "urge people to do the right things in the community and do so by talking about capacity, but really ended up unintentionally sounding an alarm bell too loudly about capacity."

 


 

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7 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Florida is cancelled.  No more Florida.

 

Florida adds another 8,942 new COVID-19 cases, breaking single-day record again

 

Friday's report of nearly 9,000 new cases caps weeks of record-high jumps with 8,942 being the highest ever.

 

Friday was the first time new cases topped 8,000, and was the third day in a row new case reports were more than 5,000.

 

Here's a breakdown of the new coronavirus cases reported by the state on each day for the past week:

 

June 18: 3,207
June 19: 3,822
June 20: 4,049
June 21: 3,494
June 22: 2,926 
June 23: 3,286
June 24: 5,508
June 25: 5,004
June 26: 8,942

 

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Renegade7

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27 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

I feel like a much more accurate name than “kung flu” would be “white trash disease.”

 

This will speed up white folks becoming just another minority group in US.

 

They already one of the few that's shrinking instead of growing.

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Sacks 'n' Stuff

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Out here at flag football nationals… In Texas… 150-200 teams from all over the country are here. Masks are supposed to be mandatory. I’d say maaaaaaybe 30% are wearing them. God’s beautiful breathing apparatus and all 😕

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Mr. Sinister

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My mom is on a corona hotline down there (she was a nurse before career change to real estate).  Says its nuts. People have just no clue how to keep themselves safe. People are getting tested.

 

Other people who are getting tested are getting their results lost . DeSantis is a piece of ****

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Just now, Renegade7 said:

Word in the street is both Texas Senators starting to call Trump out publicly for his position on testing.  

 

Sounds like we might of finally found a line with those folks, their own lives.

 

It was only a matter of time, I'm a bit surprised it's coming this early though. 

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don's got a new plan....there's gonna be a new commission still led by mike with more reliance on his god and our perfect breathing system, and without those brainwashed fake-science snowflakes messing **** up

 

 

 

 

 

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